Clinoceras

Clinoceras

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClinoceratidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 465.9 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 472.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 5 occurrences474–470 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences467–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–459 Mya — about 3 occurrences459–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–364 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465.9 Mya372.15 Mya474 Mya357 Mya

5 occurrences of Clinoceras on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

4 formations

Folkeslunda — 57.00°N, 17.00°ESeby Limestone — 57.00°N, 17.00°EFolkeslunda Limestone — 56.73°N, 16.72°EGillberga — 57.35°N, 17.05°E

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The named rock units Clinoceras has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Clinoceras and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Clinoceras and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Clinoceras, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

4 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Clinoceras

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No 3D scan of Clinoceras was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mascke 1876